reptile room

[rockpaperscissor]

They all look nice and healthy. Lizards make good pets, but husbandry can be difficult, they are sensitive to so many things. We had a couple of rescue iguanas for a few months. They were quite large - one about 3 ft long, and the other closer to 4 ft. It was almost like alligator wrestling at cleaning time. The smaller one had an injury when we got it, and he died shortly afterwards. We transported the other one to a rescue in Va.

[frederico]

yeah, they are very finicky creatures, nonetheless, these are hands on animals and in order to have them calm down, be less stressful, and used to your presence, you must interact them at least once a day. ours are all nearly puppy-dog tamed and sometimes even look forward to human interaction.

[Burning Beard]

Don't have any lizards, but I do have a 4' Ball Python. Had him for 10 or 15 years.

Beard

[frederico]

cool. i love ball pythons. do you know what morph he is? i would love to see it

[Vermin_King]

I've had 'rescue' turtles in the past, but never lizards or snakes. But I am a sucker for any and all Reptile Gardens I see on billboards while traveling.

[Burning Beard]

He is just a standard colored Ball Python, has the same coloring as a Burmese, just smaller.

Beard

[frederico]

heres my frilled dragon. he's only a juvenile and around 11 inches

[frederico]

A young broad head skink I caught and released

[airdave]

The Lizards are fanatstic!
I will have to point my Daughter to this thread, so she can take a look.
She will enjoy your photos.

She used to own a pair of Skinks...the ones with the blue tongues.
I didn't like them personally.

But now she is into Snakes.

We were walking a trail last summer and somehow she spotted this snake in the brush.
She chased it down and caught pretty quickly.
Of course, it crapped on her right away! lol
But once it calmed down, I think it enjoyed the warmth of her hands.
She wanted to keep it, and its a good thing we didn't, because I found out
that this is one of the protected snakes in this area...and we weren't even
supposed to be touching it!

Anyway, it was a cool experience.






Brings back memories for me...
I owned a Boa back in the 80s.
His name was Max Webster.
Had him for about 5 years, but then I had to let him go when I was getting divorced.
I did not have room for him in my new home.

He was over 8 feet long when I got rid of him.
The couch photo was taken about 2 years before and that was a very big couch!
So that gives you some idea of his size at age 3-4.

Quite friendly really, had no problems with him.
To be honest, all they want to do is hide, sleep and eat occasionally.

But they catch a lot of Colds.
Yes, they sneeze. Quite a bit.
I spent more time at the Vet cleaning out his congestion, than anything else.
But he had regular two visits a year just for vitamin shots and checkups.

His enclosure was a modified Ikea Kitchen cabinet.
I used artificial turf (easier to clean) and installed an "in-ground" pool.
Underneath the cabinet was ducted into the house furnace vents
and lighting fixtures were contained behind some plastic at the top.
Front window is plexiglass
...and the hinged top of the cabinet lifted up for access to the lights and interior.

[frederico]

Amazing. Blue tongue skinks are very cool creatures imo. And What species of snake is yourdaugjtet holding? Looks like a grass snake. I am the same way. I rememder catching a large black rat snake under a log. Their fairly common around where I live. Fortunatly, it didn't crap on me. I'm more of a lizard fan. I remember holding a young yellow anaconda at a reptile expo in south Carolina. It was about 7 ft in length along with a extreamly docile, 7 ft water monitor. That lizard was HEAVY. My next reptilian purchase might be an argintine black and white tegu.